Tag: Teradata
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Teradata acquiring Aster Data
This just came in: Teradata acquiring Aster Data. Database consolidation wars is full speed ahead, last month, it was HP acquiring Vertica, last year IBM bought Netezza, and EMC bought Greenplum. So within six months, the four biggest and most promising MPP DB vendors have found a new owner.
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Machine Generated Data
Curt Monash has been trying to define Machine Generated Data (but Daniel Abadi doesn’t fully agree) because machine generated data is what’ll be fuelling a lot of the future growth of DB systems. Understanding MGD and its growth pattern will help design next gen DBMS.… Continued
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Teradata Partners with RainStor for Big Data Retention and Retrieval
Teradata Partners with RainStor for Big Data Retention and Retrieval. They play it as a Retention thing (which is the right thing to do), but I wonder what that means for the Teradata Extreme Data Appliance, if anything? But even more so I wonder what that means for Rainstor, since this is their first partner deal with a DBMS vendor.… Continued
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Analytics Pissing Contest
Aster Data Founder Mayank Bawa is engaging in an analytics pissing contest with Vertica in Sessionize with Style? …Or How a column-only, SQL-only database and lack of MapReduce, will cramp your style!, all that about a mini-series of Vertica blogs, where a Vertica engineer was pointing out perceived flaws of Aster and Teradata.… Continued
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eBay replaces Greenplum with Teradata
A quicky: eBay followup — Greenplum out, Teradata > 10 petabytes, Hadoop has some value, and more. Interesting to see that the impression is that Greenplum got thrown out more for reliability reasons than performance. EBay also was repeatedly mentioned as a key customer using the MapReduce integration piece in the past, there’s also an update on that.
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Teradata, Cloudera team up on Hadoop data warehousing
Does anybody remember as far back as two months ago? That’s when I asked
All these connectors being announced makes me think there’s somebody out there with a matrix of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, looking at which combinations don’t have a marketable connector yet so he can be first to market.… Continued
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Exawars
There are some funny little wars being fought in the blogosphere between Teradata and Netezza attacking Oracle Exadata. Instead of taking side, let me just link to what’s been going on so far.
- The Teradata whitepaper that got the ball rolling: Exadata – the Sequel.
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Teradata Product Strategy
I’ve had Teradata on the phone yesterday, maybe will talk about that later. For now, here’s what Curt Monash has to say about what he heard from them: Teradata’s future product strategy.
- Single DBMS, capable of meeting all analytic needs while running in a single instance, usually running on …
- … proprietary hardware …
- … built from conservatively-chosen parts.
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Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?
Stephen Jannise of Distribution Software Advice put together a nice speculate post about Oracle’s next acquisition targets based on an analysis of the last five years worth of acquisitions: Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?… Continued